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A Mexican family’s fun day at an amusement park nearly turned into tragedy when a 6-year-old boy’s harness came undone and sent him plummeting 12 metres into a lake.

Footage doing the rounds on social media shows the little guy zipping along with his father before suddenly dropping. Very lucky for the boy, the zipline runs over a lake, and he survived the fall into the water as onlookers rushed to his aid.

Fundidora Park in Monterrey, Mexico, came under heavy fire from social media users, especially the boy’s brother who jumped onto Facebook as soon as his sibling hit the water.

“I had not had the time to first, thank God for saving my brother from this spectacular accident caused by the bad team of both staff and the zip line”, Cesar Sauceda wrote on Facebook.

He went further, saying “terrible service, terrible installation and above all, terrible training of the staff.”

Nataly Moreno, their sister, also vented via Facebook that a tourist who was nearby “jumped in to save him,” but because of how deep the lake was, they both started to drown, and her boyfriend and another brother had to go into the lake to rescue them. Sounds like a harrowing few minutes.

The incident prompted the Mexican Civil Protection Agency to suspend the zip lines that are part of Parque Amazonia, the privately-operated adventure park within Fundidora.

Fundidora said on Facebook that the incident sparked an “exhaustive investigation” to determine what happened. Have a look at the heartstopping moment below:

@bbcnews A boy survived a fall from height after his zipline harness broke at an amusement park in Mexico, media reports said. #Zipline #Monterrey #Mexico #BBCNews ♬ original sound – BBC News

This could have ended in tragedy, and we’re glad the kid made it out alive.

[source:cbs]